Top 10 Useful Android Libraries – Oct 2019

Retrofit is a type-safe HTTP client for Android and Java. With Retrofit we can compose the HTTP connection easily through a simple expressive interface just like an api document. Besides the elegant syntax it provides, it’s also easy to incorporate with different library.

Timber is used for better logging in Android. As an Android developer, we use a lot of Log statement in our project to generate outputs and we can use it to check if the required output is printed in Terminal or not.

Usage

Two easy steps:

Install any Tree instances you want in the onCreate of your application class.Call Timber’s static methods everywhere throughout your app.

Firebase Crashlytics is a lightweight, realtime crash reporter that helps you track, prioritize, and fix stability issues that erode your app quality. Crashlytics saves you troubleshooting time by intelligently grouping crashes and highlighting the circumstances that lead up to them.

ReactiveX, also known as Reactive Extensions or RX, is a library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs by using observable sequences. This is perfect for Android, which is an event-driven and user-focused platform.

ReactiveX is a combination of the best ideas from the Observer pattern, the Iterator pattern, and functional programming

The Room persistence library provides an abstraction layer over SQLite to allow for more robust database access while harnessing the full power of SQLite.

The library helps you create a cache of your app’s data on a device that’s running your app. This cache, which serves as your app’s single source of truth, allows users to view a consistent copy of key information within your app, regardless of whether users have an internet connection.

Android Butterknife is a view binding tool that uses annotations to generate boilerplate code for us. ButterKnife is developed by Jake Wharton at Square and is essentially used to save typing repetitive lines of code like findViewById(R.id.view) when dealing with views, thus making our code look a lot cleaner.

Dagger is a compile-time framework for dependency injection. It uses no reflection or runtime bytecode generation, does all its analysis at compile-time, and generates plain Java source code.

Dagger is actively maintained by the same team that works on Guava. Snapshot releases are auto-deployed to Sonatype’s central Maven repository on every clean build with the version HEAD-SNAPSHOT. The current version builds upon previous work done at Square.